Dive Crazy

Got to go diving in the Monterey Bay Habitats exhibit today.  Bret and I did the 7-Gill feed and then a brief maintenance dive afterwards.  We were in the water for 69 minutes and the water was probably around 57 degrees.  In case I haven't talked about the 7-Gill feeding dives before it is when two divers go in and pole-feed the 7-Gill sharks, hand feed the dogfish, leopard sharks, bat rays, and giant sea bass and broadcast food around the exhibit for the rockfish.  This dive takes around 40 or so minutes now that we have to try and feed the bat rays.  After the feeding dive was done we cleaned a couple of areas in the exhibit and 69 minutes later we were frozen and running low on air so we had to call it a day.

The rest of the afternoon was a bit hectic as I only got about 20 mins to mow down some food and then had to meet with my boss for an hour to catch up on a few things.  After that I got to feed the smaller molas we have in holding and that was pretty much the end of my work day.  There was a going away 'party' for a woman who had been working in husbandry for many, many years and is now unfortunately battling cancer.  She'll still be around in a volunteer guide capacity helping out the public and such and told me that if I didn't say hi to her on those Thursdays that she'd kick me!

I had to get in a run straight from work and left around 5:20 in the direction of the running club that was leaving for their run at 5:30.  I eventually caught them as they were running towards me and we headed off for a pretty quick run, 6 miles for me in total.  Only 11 more days till race day and I'm feeling pretty good about it.  I'll probably get a couple easy runs in and a longer one Saturday.

One more day left to the work week!

Good Coach Lombardi Quotes:

• "Mental toughness is essential to success."

• "The difference between a successful person and others in not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

• "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious."